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North Africa   /nɔrθ ˈæfrəkə/   Listen
North Africa

noun
1.
An area of northern Africa between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea.





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"North Africa" Quotes from Famous Books



... the area of destroyed vegetation. Sand-deserts are not, as used to be supposed, sea-bottoms from which the water has retreated, but areas of destruction of vegetation—often (though not always) both in Central Asia and in North Africa (Egypt, etc.), started by the deliberate destruction of forest by man, who has either by artificial drainage starved the forest, or by the simple use of the axe and fire ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
... dark, fleshy broom-rape, with scaly leaves. We have one species of the same genus in England. They are parasitic on the roots of plants; and the Midianite species, which is found in North Africa, Egypt, and Arabia, grows on the roots of ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 2 • Richard Burton


Words linked to "North Africa" :   Africa, geographical region, Numidia, geographic region, geographical area, geographic area


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